· Private foundation
Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEREBRAL PALSEY ACCOCIATION OF NASSAU COUNTY INC | $16,000 |
| HORSEABILITY | $10,100 |
| JACOBS CHANCE INC | $8,300 |
| MORGAN'S WONDERLAND | $7,500 |
| TILES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $6,000 |
| BRING ON THE SPECTRUM INC | $5,650 |
| SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEW YORK INC | $5,000 |
| NASSAU PARKS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CARTIE CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC | $5,000 |
| REVOLUTIONS DANCE INC | $5,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| HEAR YOUR SONG INC | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN ARTS ACCESS | $4,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAASPIRING ATTITUDES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +91%
- SMST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +318%
- MFMEPHIBOSETH FARMS ANGELIC RIDERS4× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- LRLIVING RESOURCES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $67k · revenue -20%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $23k
- MTMISSISSIPPI TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION-CAMP KAMASSAone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The specific purpose of abilities dance is to: 1) provide a professional platform for adult dancers of all physical and mental abilities through performance opportunities in the boston area and beyond as a mixed abilities company 2)…
Our mission is to help people live the healthiest and fullest lives possible, and our first priority is those who live with the challenges associated with developmental disabilities.
CO/LAB Theater Group Inc, is an IRS 510(c)(3) nonprofit organization, incorporated pursuant to New York State law, which is dedicated to offering Creative Opportunities without Limits And Boundaries. The organization exists to offer…
Dynamic Strides Therapy is a non-profit outpatient pediatric therapy facility that offers occupational, physical and speech therapies to children with special needs. Patients receive unique treatment that combines traditional occupational,…
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
Nassau suffolk services for the autistic (nssa) offers hope to people with autism and their families by providing high quality life-long support through services which enable people with autism to function better in everday life. nssa…
Our mission is to evaluate individual needs, develop nurturing, therapeutic learning environments and foster professional growth. we believe that family, staff and community collaboration is the cornerstone of our success.
To serve people with developmental disabilities
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.
To promote wellness and a healthier lifestyle through performing arts to individuals with disabilities that also help to grow community inclusion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Richard M Brodsky Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIVING RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRING ATTITUDES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MEPHIBOSETH FARMS ANGELIC RIDERS ↗
- Who funds CAMP HORSEABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds AIM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Wonderland ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ARTS ACCESS ↗
- Who funds ATTACK THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE VOICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NASSAU COUNTY RECREATION INC aka NASSAU PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC ↗
- Who funds Bring on the Spectrum Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN BALLET ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HEAR YOUR SONG INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHNS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPT ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds Richard M Brodsky Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Frank J Antun Foundation · Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Cartie Corp — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Ballet — 1% of income from government
- Theatre Adventure Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Dance Education Organization — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.